The Passion of the Christ (movie)

That's what an irritated Christian Bale, as Moses, says to God, at one point during Ridley Scott's 2-1/2-hour epic, "Exodus: Gods and Kings."

Giving this remark an even stranger, non-biblical feel is that Ridley's conception of God, is a peevish 10-year-old boy. Yep. The Big Guy is not a mighty voice, or the typical bearded gentlemen of certain years. Who knows what Ridley intended with this casting?

The God of Israel, of the Old Testament was a capricious, jealous, vengeful type. (I mean, he did kill all the innocent first-born of Egypt. And then there was the business with Job, and Isaac and the Great Flood.) Was Ridley trying...

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